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Habsburgian

Habsburgian adjective: of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.

Adjective

Habsburgian (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.
    • It was an attempt to preserve the teutsche Libertät, the autonomy of the imperial Estates against Habsburgian efforts to gain absolute power.1995, Olaf Mörke, “5: The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results”, in Karel Davids, C. A. Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch...
    • They most commonly employed a Habsburgian notion of state and society in which authorities were understood to be guardians of Indians, part of a pact between crown and subjects.2001, Charles F. Walker, “Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820”, in Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert M. Joseph, editors...

Noun

Habsburgian (plural Habsburgians)

  1. A Habsburg, a member of the Habsburg dynastic family.
    • Before that time the Habsburgians had been for centuries the emperors of the German Holy Roman Empire until they were deposed by Napoleon in 1806.1985, Peter Bernholz, The International Game of Power: Past, Present and Future, page 34
    • The successors to Ferdinand of Aragon as kings of Spain were the Habsburgians Charles I (1516-1556, since 1519 Roman Emperor Charles V), Philipp II (1556-1598), Philipp III (1598-1621), the dedicatee of Stella's Columbeis (see above, pp. 456 ff.), Philipp IV (1621-1665), Charles II (1665-1700), and...1994, Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold, The Classical Tradition and the Americas, page 510

Forms of Habsburgian

Adjective
alternative formHapsburgian
Noun
pluralHabsburgians

Origin of Habsburgian

From Habsburg + -ian.

Questions about Habsburgian

What does Habsburgian mean?
Habsburgian means of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.
What part of speech is Habsburgian?
Habsburgian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Habsburgian in the dictionary

  1. Habsburg jaw
  2. Habsburg jaws
  3. Habsburg lip
  4. Habsburg lips
  5. Habsburg Monarchy
  6. Habsburgian
  7. Habsburgians
  8. Habsburgs
  9. habshi
  10. habshis
  11. Habte

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